Food-as-medicine is the understanding that food can serve as a contributor to disease and dysfunction or as a driver for optimal organ function and disease treatment or prevention. By avoiding inflammatory, processed, toxic ingredients and food-like-substances through a whole foods based diet, one is using food as medicine. However, they can take it further by enhancing their diet with food-as-medicine through the addition of therapeutic ingredients that promote healthy function in the body and lead to optimal metabolic balance. With the use of food-as-medicine, you can gain a multitude of treatments for a single intention without undesired side effects of an often mono-focused medication.

Ali has been using the ketogenic diet as a therapeutic tool since 2009 and sees the state of nutritional ketosis as honoring your body's natural design of metabolic flexibility, not a fad diet. Ketones are energy substrates made by the body when at a state of low carbohydrate intake or fasting. These powerful compounds aid in rebounding the body's metabolism through insulin sensitivity, muscle sparing effects, appetite regulation and enhanced body fat burn. Ketones also have an antiinflammatory effect on the body and brain while serving to promote mental health and cognitive function. Unfortunately, the majority of people don't make ketones any more as we are constantly eating and are over consuming refined carbohydrates. Learn about how a low carb approach to eating can still be rich in antioxidants and focusing on quality whole real foods.